Comparative Viral Metagenomics of Environmental Samples from Korea
The introduction of metagenomics into the field of virology has facilitated the exploration of viral communities in various natural habitats. Understanding the viral ecology of a variety of sample types throughout the biosphere is important per se, but it also has potential applications in clinical...
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| description | The introduction of metagenomics into the field of virology has facilitated the exploration of viral communities in various natural habitats. Understanding the viral ecology of a variety of sample types throughout the biosphere is important per se, but it also has potential applications in clinical and diagnostic virology. However, the procedures used by viral metagenomics may produce technical errors, such as amplification bias, while public viral databases are very limited, which may hamper the determination of the viral diversity in samples. This review considers the current state of viral metagenomics, based on examples from Korean viral metagenomic studies-i.e., rice paddy soil, fermented foods, human gut, seawater, and the near-surface atmosphere. Viral metagenomics has become widespread due to various methodological developments, and much attention has been focused on studies that consider the intrinsic role of viruses that interact with their hosts. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-69bbb9d15b964ffa884921e41e34973b2025-02-03T00:12:51ZengBioMed CentralGenomics & Informatics1598-866X2234-07422013-09-0111312112810.5808/GI.2013.11.3.12146Comparative Viral Metagenomics of Environmental Samples from KoreaMin-Soo Kim0Tae Woong Whon1Jin-Woo Bae2Department of Life and Nanopharmaceutical Science and Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea.Department of Life and Nanopharmaceutical Science and Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea.Department of Life and Nanopharmaceutical Science and Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea.The introduction of metagenomics into the field of virology has facilitated the exploration of viral communities in various natural habitats. Understanding the viral ecology of a variety of sample types throughout the biosphere is important per se, but it also has potential applications in clinical and diagnostic virology. However, the procedures used by viral metagenomics may produce technical errors, such as amplification bias, while public viral databases are very limited, which may hamper the determination of the viral diversity in samples. This review considers the current state of viral metagenomics, based on examples from Korean viral metagenomic studies-i.e., rice paddy soil, fermented foods, human gut, seawater, and the near-surface atmosphere. Viral metagenomics has become widespread due to various methodological developments, and much attention has been focused on studies that consider the intrinsic role of viruses that interact with their hosts.http://genominfo.org/upload/pdf/gni-11-121.pdfbacteriophagesDNA sequence analysisDNA virusesenvironmentmetagenomics |
| spellingShingle | Min-Soo Kim Tae Woong Whon Jin-Woo Bae Comparative Viral Metagenomics of Environmental Samples from Korea Genomics & Informatics bacteriophages DNA sequence analysis DNA viruses environment metagenomics |
| title | Comparative Viral Metagenomics of Environmental Samples from Korea |
| title_full | Comparative Viral Metagenomics of Environmental Samples from Korea |
| title_fullStr | Comparative Viral Metagenomics of Environmental Samples from Korea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparative Viral Metagenomics of Environmental Samples from Korea |
| title_short | Comparative Viral Metagenomics of Environmental Samples from Korea |
| title_sort | comparative viral metagenomics of environmental samples from korea |
| topic | bacteriophages DNA sequence analysis DNA viruses environment metagenomics |
| url | http://genominfo.org/upload/pdf/gni-11-121.pdf |
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